Brandon of all people knows the value of not underestimating the old bad arts, though, and while he's clearly expressed his disinterest in demons, there's no denying how interesting the Solomonic system is, how its seals are beautiful examples of historical warding.
And, fortunately, easy to call to mind. The biggest struggle Brandon has once Petre has yanked him close enough to claw at his neck is twisting enough to get his own arm through the bars, and his own hand flat on Petre's chest. He's clumsy from the sudden adrenaline surge, too, which is no help, and panic is on the horizon but under control for the moment - Brandon is touched with cold to the very heart, the very quality that kept him calm before Haran and sedate following Tavor into a slaughterhouse-smelling darkness. (He does not look for a second to Tavor for help.)
The reason he has to call the seal to mind rather than use the gesture he had ready is because Brandon does not incorporate such symbols into his personal items. The whole system is, after all, looted wholesale from Jewish religious texts, and he isn't Jewish. Hopefully, that won't matter; hopefully, it's the icy-burning glyph that emerges from his mind and out of his palm to fill Petre's chest with a couple thousand volts of freezing, muscle-juddering pain that matters. ]
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Brandon of all people knows the value of not underestimating the old bad arts, though, and while he's clearly expressed his disinterest in demons, there's no denying how interesting the Solomonic system is, how its seals are beautiful examples of historical warding.
And, fortunately, easy to call to mind. The biggest struggle Brandon has once Petre has yanked him close enough to claw at his neck is twisting enough to get his own arm through the bars, and his own hand flat on Petre's chest. He's clumsy from the sudden adrenaline surge, too, which is no help, and panic is on the horizon but under control for the moment - Brandon is touched with cold to the very heart, the very quality that kept him calm before Haran and sedate following Tavor into a slaughterhouse-smelling darkness. (He does not look for a second to Tavor for help.)
The reason he has to call the seal to mind rather than use the gesture he had ready is because Brandon does not incorporate such symbols into his personal items. The whole system is, after all, looted wholesale from Jewish religious texts, and he isn't Jewish. Hopefully, that won't matter; hopefully, it's the icy-burning glyph that emerges from his mind and out of his palm to fill Petre's chest with a couple thousand volts of freezing, muscle-juddering pain that matters. ]